History of Sparta's 300 Warriors

In 480 BC, King Xerxes I of Persia (Rodriguez santoro) led a 500,000-strong army to attack Greece on a large scale and approached the Amoro Pass all the way south. Spartan King Leonidas (gerard butler) personally led the Greek allied forces to guard the dangerous hot spring pass.

However, the Greek defenders were quickly defeated. Leonidas ordered the main force of the Greek Coalition to retreat quickly, and led 300 Spartan behind the house to wage a bloody and desperate struggle with tens of thousands of Persian troops. In the end, all 300 warriors died, but at the same time, the Persian army paid a painful price of 20 thousand casualties in the battle to break the hot spring pass.

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It is said that the Persians found only 298 bodies of Spartan citizens when cleaning the battlefield. It turns out that two Spartans didn't take part in the battle. One is because of eye disease, and the other is because of being ordered to go out.

After the war, they returned to Sparta, and people in their hometown despised them and ignored them. One of them couldn't stand the humiliation and committed suicide. The other died in the later battle, but the Spartans refused to bury him in the cemetery of the glorious victims.

Forty years after the battle, Leonidas's body was sent back to Sparta. The grieving people awarded the great king the highest honor and reburied his bones on the mountain. Sparta held a ceremony every year to commemorate this human hero.

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